Most people aren't thinking hard enough. Most people aren't thinking deeply enough.
You can't be spending all your time on a screen, lost in social media, chasing or reacting to email and be thinking deeply enough.
This is a problem because when it comes time to make your biggest choices and decisions under pressure, the pressure of some unforeseen adversity or opportunity while you're exposed, you just haven't done the work to be prepared.
Many people are confused about their personal identity. It's just true if you don't know who you are as an individual then it's only logical and reasonable that you won't know where you fit inside of your family, where you fit in your community and then where you fit in society as a whole.
If you haven't done the work, if you haven't thought deeply and done some organization, if you haven't done this work to define yourself, then someone else or something else is going to define you.
It's also true that if you haven't organized and thought deeply about your strongest beliefs, if you haven't thought deeply about where you get your strength from then those values can't be the compass or the guide for your life.
Thoughts must become words. Those words become the language that you use daily to cast a of vision and re-aim your life.
If you haven't done this personal development work then you're living your life because of emotion and momentum, not with emotion and momentum.
You're easily controlled like a mouse trapped in a maze, hoping for and always searching for some cheese instead of becoming a lion who sees the trap, avoids the maze and lives life in an intentional way.
Do the work to define yourself and keep coming forward.
Jim Hensel
